Mustafa Özbilgin is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, London UK, is Co-Chaire Management et Diversité at Université Paris Dauphine, France, and is a Visiting Professor of Management at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. 

His research focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion at work from comparative and relational perspectives.  He has conducted field studies in the UK and internationally and his work is empirically grounded. His research is supported by international as well as national grants from the ESRC, EU, CIPD, ACE, ACCA, British Academy among others. His work has a focus on changing policy and practice in equality and diversity at work. He is an engaged scholar, driven by values of workplace democracy, equality for all, and humanisation of work. He has authored and edited 18 books and published over 200 papers in academic journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, British Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Gender Work and Organization, and Social Science and Medicine among others. 

He has done research, consultancy and training at a large number of organisations including the British House of Commons, Barclays Bank, The Bank West Australia, Halifax, the CIPD, the National Health Service, the NHS Employers, Tesco, the Probation Services, The UK Fire Service, the Economist Research Unit, the OECD, the WRVS, DTI, Rio Tinto, PwC, Linklaters and ACCA. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the European Management Review (EMR), the official journal of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) from 2014 to 2018 and as the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management, the official journal of the British Academy of Management, for four years from 2010 to 2014. He serves as an Associate Editor for the journal: Gender Work and Organization, and is a Member of the Editorial Boards of: Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE), and Equality Diversity and Inclusion: an international Journal (Emerald Press)

He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal (Emerald Press) between 2006 and 2010, and is the Founder of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) international conference.